Standing in front of those monuments, the mind travels through hundreds, hundreds or even thousands of years, back to the scene, with the living times and characters, the moment, history as if it were alive. 。。。。。。
"Chang'an looks back at the embroidered piles, the top of the mountain thousands of doors open one after another", "the jade carriage across the Lord, the Golden Whip to the Hou family", "the spring breeze of the horse's hooves fast, a day to see all the flowers of Chang'an". "。。。。。。
In the Tang Dynasty, the poet's pen, the prosperous world of Chang'an jumped off the paper, the thousand-year-old capital has too many amazing historical past, can not help but be desired.
But this time to visit the town of Chang'an, this Chang'an is not the other Chang'an, it is located in Haining City, Zhejiang Province.
"Chang'an", the name is full of ancient meaning.
Chang'an, a long river, the name of Chang'an, when derived from the long river.
The Chang River is the Shangtang River and the main river in the territory, and in ancient times, travelers came from the north to Hangzhou, most of them took this route.
The city of Chang'an was established in the 11th year of the Tang Dynasty (723).
In the Northern Song Dynasty, Yuanfeng's "Nine Regions" was called "Chang'an, a town".
Southern Song Xianchun "Lin'an Zhi": "Chang'an city in the county west of twenty miles, now the town."
Since then, the name of the town has remained unchanged for more than a thousand years.
The car was parked in a parking lot next to the Zhongzha Bridge, and the journey started from the lower gate.
I have to say, from the details can feel, Chang'an Township Party Committee and Government of the tourism industry attaches great importance to the township's main intersections have attractions of the guide map and signs, even if it is the first time to come to the tourists can also quickly find the destination.
I've been to a lot of ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River, but there are not many that can do what Chang'an Town can do.
The lower gate was built in the Song Dynasty and is the third gate of the three gates of Chang'an.
According to archaeological discoveries, the remaining north side of the lower lock gate wall, gate pillar and wing wall, is one of the most important surviving relics of the Song Dynasty in the Grand Canal of China.
At the location of the lower lock, there is an existing "Liberation Bridge" built in 1979.
A stone monument erected beside the Jiefang Bridge.
There is a square by the Jiefang Bridge, which seems to be occupied by the elderly at night for square dancing.
The words printed on the railing look comfortable, courteous and civilized.
The middle gate is the second gate of the three gates of Chang'an, and in June 1983 the middle gate bridge was reconstructed.
According to archaeological findings, the middle gate remnants of the Song Dynasty on both sides of the gate wall, gate pillar and wooden threshold, gate width 6.9 meters.
Standing on the bank towards the bridge observed for a long time, but ultimately can not distinguish which part is considered to be the remains, which is the product of modern times.
We came to the upper lock.
The upper gate was the first of the three gates in Chang'an. It was converted into a dam in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and became a channel for the flooding of the Shangtang River system.
In May 1964, the Shangzha Bridge was rebuilt.
According to the archaeological discovery, the gate wall on the east side of the upper gate is a relic of the Song Dynasty.
I am puzzled by the fact that the bridge is so new that it doesn't look like it was built in 1964.
It must have been repaired recently, and this time point should be clarified.
The bridge was built in 1964, but it's not like it was built in 1964.
Chen's house was built in the first year of the Xuan Tong Qing Dynasty (1909), a typical Chinese and Western style building.
The main body of the house is a brick and stone structure, there are three existing buildings.
Two of them are south-facing, two-storey buildings, with a foyer in the middle, with a width of about 26 meters, the two buildings have the same structural style, with a porch in front.
The other building towards the east, west of the Shangtang River, for a one-story bungalow, through the surface width of about 23 meters, the front porch doorway for the arched coupon type.
According to the local old people reflect, during the war period, the river bungalow was occupied by the Japanese army as a water prison.
At present, the use of Chen's house is a community center for home care services, and it seems that the property rights of the house have been attributed to the government.
I don't know what the name of the owner of the house is, but I only know his surname is Chen, and I don't have any information about his personal life, so where are the descendants of Chen now?
Repair the old as the old, repair the new East Street.
Walking on East Street, a breath of life in the city came to the forefront, barber stores, tailor stores, cloth stores and other stores closely related to the daily life of the residents of the old street, serving generations of Chang'an people.
Walking west along the Shangzha Bridge, you will come to the Middle Street.
It seems that any ancient town likes to hang red lanterns under the eaves, which seems to have become the standard for ancient towns.
I remember one year, CCTV recorded a program in Wuzhen during the Spring Festival, the program team put the ancient town part of the scene decorated, hung up red lanterns, seems to be in order to support the festive atmosphere during the festival.
At the time, Mr. Chen Xianghong, president of the Wuzhen Tourism Company, felt that it was quite vulgar, and that there was no beauty to be found in the uniformity.
The Rainbow Bridge over the Shangtang River.
Hongqiao is located in the core of Chang'an Ancient Town, connecting the middle street, West Street across the Shangtang River, for the single-hole arched stone bridge, the structure is more intact, and has always been a landmark building for the ancient town of Chang'an.
The bridge center railing is engraved with "rebuilt in the first year of Xianfeng", "Hongqiao" seal script inscription, and both sides of the railing are engraved with characters and stories in floral relief.
The bridge was built in the Song Jianyan years (1127-1130), the construction of Lingong Temple, the South Song Xianchun "Lin'an Zhi" called "Chang'an Bridge".
Ming Chenghua "Hangzhou Prefecture" in the "bridge wall as a rainbow", so the name was changed to Hongqiao.
Walking across the Rainbow Bridge, on the south bank of the bridge is the Grand Canal (Chang'an Gate) Heritage Exhibition Center.
On the west side of the Hongqiao, on the bank of the canal, there are Changhe Pavilion and Xiuchuan Pavilion.
Retired senior citizens naturally gather here, and it has become an important social occasion for them.
They leisurely leaned on the beauty cushions and talked warmly to each other.
After a lifetime of hard work, they can finally take a break after retirement, and with the state increasing their pensions every year, they have a solid guarantee of a happy old age.
I found an interesting phenomenon, in winter almost every old man head wearing a hat, could it be that when you get older, you are particularly afraid of the cold?
A shadow wall on the west side of Hongqiao.
The picture on the wall vividly shows the bustling scene on both sides of the Hongqiao.
Prepare to visit Xijie Temple Lane.
At the entrance of West Street, this wall painting with a poem successfully caught my attention.
This is a poem by Wen Zhengming, one of the four geniuses of Wuzhong in the Ming Dynasty, in which he praises the spring flowers:
The fragrance of Chen Chen swims around the room, and the coldness of the ducks and yellow dots are collected.
The Easterner was afraid of thinking about spring for a long time, and sent the spring light to the desk first.
Listening to the wind into rhyme, as soon as I saw these words, I was delighted and liked the meaning it conveyed.
The name of this cafe is really wonderful!
I especially like the overall facade decoration of West Street, which is full of antique flavor.
What caught my attention was the old man sitting inside, known as the Bearded Man, a flowing beard is too much of an accent.
Such a text is always full of mood, straight to the heart.
The front of this get in is the temple get.
The tour continues in the Temple Lane.
In the hallway of one of the houses, there is an exquisite ink lamp hanging.
There are two wells next to each other in front of the Banquet Ball Culture Pavilion, and a stone statue of a man carrying water on the side, with a bent stretcher, seems to be full of water in the bucket.
Banquet ball is the traditional Chang'an town of local dishes, fish meat is tender and live pan, fresh flavor, excellent taste, rich in nutrients, is to give guests a meet gift, banquet ball is round, implies the meaning of the reunion.
Banquet ball culture pavilion on the right side of the Ganzi Pavilion, an old man is pulling the erhu, the wonderful sound of the piano in the air flow, the level of the old man is really not low ah!
The copper horse at the entrance of the Copper Art Museum is quite popular, and children always like to go up to sit and experience it.
Yufeng Sauce Garden.
Yufeng Sauce Garden was founded in 1836 by Xu Xing Lagen, the grandfather of poet Xu Zhimo.
The "Rose Rice Vinegar" produced by the Soy Sauce Garden is made in strict accordance with the ancient brewing technology, and has become popular and a household name.
Chang'an Memory Museum.
At the northernmost part of the temple, you can see the "Zhejiang Haining Middle School" on the Youth Road.
A township middle school is not called Chang'an Middle School, but Haining Middle School, which is extraordinary!
I have to say, people's dominance is justified, there is really this bottom in ah.
Haining Middle School in Zhejiang Province was founded in 1905, formerly known as Haining State High School.
The school has Haining City municipal cultural heritage "Yangshan Academy", provincial cultural heritage "Han Tomb Portrait" and other cultural relics, with a strong humanistic atmosphere, is a good place to study and learn, and cultivate your character.
On the side of the road by chance to see a beautiful building, but is the city station and wisdom study, can not help but in the bottom of the heart issued a sigh of praise!
Although pragmatically speaking, these are image projects, performance projects, but at least it is a real take out the real money of the people's livelihood projects, to enhance the people's sense of well-being is a great benefit.
Who does not like to have the temperature of the city?
Such a place citizens naturally have a strong sense of belonging.
The new residential buildings on the north bank of the Shangtang River have been renovated.
White walls and tiles, living on the water, the happy life of the people of the Jiangnan water village scroll in front of us.
Came to the Chang'an gate, the roadside fence is inscribed with the "Rainbow Bridge Night Moon", the store called "Weir遇", think it is really original and quite creative ah.
This is the famous Chang'an Gate.
In 2006, it was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Chang'an lock is an important water conservancy hub project on the ancient Grand Canal. There is the old site of Chang'an Weir (Old Dam), which was an important hub connecting different water systems in ancient times, one of the three major weirs of the Jiangnan Canal in the Song Dynasty, and one of the largest canal facilities on the ancient Jiangnan Canal.
It represented the world's advanced level of water conservancy and navigation facilities construction at that time, and has high historical and scientific value.
Next to the lock, there is the site of Wang Xianggong Hall, which only has the foundation of the house remaining.
The "new and old dams show ban on extortion monument" erected on the river bank.
Qing Guangxu eight years (1882) on the 22nd day of the first month of Haining County Governor Wang Zhao Min established.
The monument records the Haining State Department on the Chang'an Town, the old and new dam driver wage regulations and prohibit the dam driver to the passing boat extortion, etc., is the late Qing Dynasty government management of the old and new dam monument notice.
Chang'an Boat Rising Dam.
The charming scenery on both sides of Shangtang River is like an ink painting.
Shangzha Bridge Lock.
Finally, we came to Juehuang Temple.
Jue Huang Temple, the famous temple in Jiangnan, has a history of more than one thousand one hundred years, the Buddhist community has the first Jue Queen Lingyin said, was built in the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, after the Tang Dynasty Changxing four years (933) rebuilt, the ancestral name of the temple of Zhengjue.
The Northern Song dynasty in two years (1065) was renamed Jue Huang Temple, the end of the Yuan temple destroyed, Ming Hongwu twenty-four years (1319) rebuilt.
Qing Shunzhi, Qianlong, Daoguang, Xuantong four dynasties are rebuilt, unfortunately destroyed in the Cultural Revolution.
Now many places in Chang'an, such as Temple Lane, Temple Bridge, etc. are named after this temple.
Now we see the Juehuang Temple was rebuilt in 2002.
The Nine Dragons Wall.
Ink painting of Master Tai Tai, Pure Land of Buddha.
Pagoda in the temple.
Paintings around the bottom and on top of the pagoda.
The Hall of Heavenly Kings.
The Mahamudra Temple.
The bell tower and drum tower on both sides.
For the first time, the God of Wealth is on the second floor of the temple.
Guanyin Pavilion.
The Temple of the Goddess of Mercy.
The reclining Buddha.
The Hall of Gods.
Jiangnan region of the temple walked a lot, the temple of the gods is the first time to see.
Buddha sitting statue.
Immediately next to the Jue Huang Temple is the Taixu Cultural Park.
The statue of Master Taixu.
Master Taixu (1890-1947), originally from Chongde, Zhejiang Province (now Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province), born in Haining, Zhejiang Province, is a famous monk in modern times.
Pavilions, pavilions, nine curved bridges, the rhythm of the Jiangnan garden is no better.
Come also in a hurry, go also in a hurry, between the dragonfly pointing at the water is just a glimpse, Changan's simple and ancient beauty needs to be savored, looking forward to the next close contact.